Competition in foraging flocks of migrating semipalmated sandpipers

Oecologia

Volumn 154, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 403-409

  Beauchamp, Guy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Competition; Corophium; Foraging; Group size; Semipalmated sandpiper

Indexed keywords

AMPHIPOD; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); FITNESS; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROUP SIZE; MIGRATORY SPECIES; PREDATION; WADER;

AMPHIPODA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHARADRIIFORMES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; OBSERVATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE;

AMPHIPODA; ANIMALS; CHARADRIIFORMES; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEW BRUNSWICK; OBSERVATION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TEMPERATURE;

CALIDRIS PUSILLA; COROPHIUM; COROPHIUM VOLUTATOR;

EID: 35948939323     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-007-0818-8     Document Type: Article

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